Even Viruses may have “eyes and ears” on us: New UMBC research
New UMBC-led research in Frontiers in Microbiology suggests that viruses are using information from their environment to “decide”…
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Scent, sweat from human skin attract disease-spreading mosquitoes
Mosquitoes that spread Zika, dengue and yellow fever are guided toward their victims by a scent from human…
New ecology tools predict disease transmission among wildlife, humans
The rate that emerging wildlife diseases infect humans has steadily increased over the last three decades. Viruses, such…
Scientists develop improved, potentially safer Zika vaccine
The worldwide Zika threat first emerged in 2015, infecting millions as it swept across the Americas. It struck…
Scientists discover unknown virus in ‘throwaway’ DNA
A chance discovery has opened up a new method of finding unknown viruses. In research published in the…